TSX needs a Race button!
01-31-2006, 10:44 PM
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Burning Brakes
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TSX needs a Race button!
Thats what we need, a button that would allow vtec to set in at like 2500. That way we can turn it off for less sprintier and more fuel economic drives, and turn it on when we want the speed!
) You could do sooo much better with that race button. Trending Topics
02-01-2006, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by loulinjai
ivtec allows vtec to kick in and engage at any rpm, depending on conditions.....
vtec doesn't mean speed anyways, just a more agressive cam profile...
vtec doesn't mean speed anyways, just a more agressive cam profile...
02-01-2006, 06:59 AM
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Lowering the VTEC too far (2500!) wouldn't do any good, as the high cam is tuned for, well, high RPMs. But if you want to change it, you could look into getting a VTEC controller, but that's a bit of a hack. Do you feel lucky hacking into your car's CPU? 
02-01-2006, 08:20 AM
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Dude, I totally agree. I was all set to buy a flux capacitor for my TSX, but then I went and bought a house instead.
Oh well.
Oh well.
02-01-2006, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by daddydliv
My flux capacitor is making a rattling sound. I brought it in to the dealer and they couldn't reproduce the sound.
There goes your warranty 
I need this button for when I come up against a Porsche Cayenne Turbo:
02-01-2006, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by daddydliv
My flux capacitor is making a rattling sound. I brought it in to the dealer and they couldn't reproduce the sound.
02-01-2006, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by fast1
Why have a switch when most of us would leave it pressed in?
i would leave my switch off unless I needed it
02-01-2006, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by GIBSON6594
A lot of high end cars have "performace" switches. The M5 has a switch that releases an extra 100 horses when you want to go into high speed mode. Even sicker is the new Buggati, which you need to put a special second key into a switch which will allow the car to go into race mode and let the car break well into the 200 mph range.
i would leave my switch off unless I needed it
i would leave my switch off unless I needed it
02-01-2006, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by daddydliv
My flux capacitor is making a rattling sound. I brought it in to the dealer and they couldn't reproduce the sound.
02-01-2006, 12:21 PM
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Some M3's and M5's got lights in the rpm gauge... when the engine is cold you can't rev that much..the warmer the engine gets, the more lights turn off (higher rev limit)...nice
But have to say that i think the vtec system starting at 6000 rpm is the stupidiest honda could do...when in first gear (automatic transmission, sport shift) it flies into the rev limiter when passing 6000 rpm...stupid stupid... why give us only 1000 rpm's fun?
Sorry... just have to let myself go
(and yes i know hondata has flashes... except for my 2005 engine.... and even if they had it for mine... $$$$ for fixing a honda design fault)
But have to say that i think the vtec system starting at 6000 rpm is the stupidiest honda could do...when in first gear (automatic transmission, sport shift) it flies into the rev limiter when passing 6000 rpm...stupid stupid... why give us only 1000 rpm's fun?
Sorry... just have to let myself go
(and yes i know hondata has flashes... except for my 2005 engine.... and even if they had it for mine... $$$$ for fixing a honda design fault)
02-01-2006, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Tsx536
My Flux Capacitor works fine 
02-01-2006, 12:59 PM
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My TSX needs to be a time machine so that I can go back to the 80s when there was better tv shows! Or I want to go forward to the year 2015 and try a hoverboard.
02-01-2006, 01:48 PM
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You guys are crazy. I just made my own DIY flux capacitor out of galvanized roofing nails and 31 feet of purple yarn, total cost was under $8. It works awesome!
02-01-2006, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jlukja
Dammit Kenny, is there no end to your performance mods!! I guess you can own everyone from 0-90, but you don't know where you'll wind up after.
Yeah one time I ended up in a Hyundai factory 
It was a very tramatic experience.I just hit the
button though and came right back
02-01-2006, 01:54 PM
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I don't understand the desire to add a flux capacitor to you TSX. Why would you want your car to be temporally drag limited to 88 mph? And are you going to doublecross Libyans to get the plutonium you need? I think they Libyans will eventually catch on if enough TSX owners keep stealing their plutonium...
...DONT DISS THE STEELERS..im from PITTSBURGH
02-01-2006, 02:41 PM
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:ibtfl:
Can't believe its gone this far already...
Some unamed posted probaly wishes that there's a "Jetta" button that turns the TSX into a Corolla-looking clone and breaks down every week.
Can't believe its gone this far already...
Some unamed posted probaly wishes that there's a "Jetta" button that turns the TSX into a Corolla-looking clone and breaks down every week.
02-01-2006, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Beoshingus
Just like the Delorean in Back to the Future 2! And a Mr. Fusion unit!
Dude! Mr. Fusion doesn't power the car. It is used to power the time circuit. I guess you didn't see Back to the Future 3. Hahahah!!!
02-01-2006, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by peter_bigblock
You guys are crazy. I just made my own DIY flux capacitor out of galvanized roofing nails and 31 feet of purple yarn, total cost was under $8. It works awesome!
I love that you also added it to your list of mods.